This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
staging: gma500: get control from firmware framebuffer if conflicts
to my staging git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6.git
in the staging-linus branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will hopefully also will be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From aaa5c677910d313ca1318c905c799c459c6f0078 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Chang <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 14:28:25 +0800
Subject: staging: gma500: get control from firmware framebuffer if conflicts
Many Linux distributions would enable vesafb in order to display
early stage boot splash. In this case, we will get garbled X
Window screen if running X fbdev on psbfb.
This is because fb0 is occupied by vesafb while psbfb is on fb1.
They tried to drive the same pieces of hardware at the same
time. With unmodified X start-up, it would try to use default
fb0 framebuffer device and unfortunately it is now broken
becaues fb1 supersedes it.
We should let psbfb takeover framebuffer control from vesafb
to get around this problem.
See also commit : 4410f3910947dcea8672280b3adecd53cec4e85e
Signed-off-by: Michael Chang <[email protected]>
Cc: Alan Cox <[email protected]>
Cc: stable <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/staging/gma500/psb_fb.c | 10 ++++++++++
1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/gma500/psb_fb.c b/drivers/staging/gma500/psb_fb.c
index 99c03a2..084c36b 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/gma500/psb_fb.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/gma500/psb_fb.c
@@ -441,6 +441,16 @@ static int psbfb_create(struct psb_fbdev *fbdev,
info->screen_size = size;
memset(info->screen_base, 0, size);
+ if (dev_priv->pg->stolen_size) {
+ info->apertures = alloc_apertures(1);
+ if (!info->apertures) {
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+ goto out_err0;
+ }
+ info->apertures->ranges[0].base = dev->mode_config.fb_base;
+ info->apertures->ranges[0].size = dev_priv->pg->stolen_size;
+ }
+
drm_fb_helper_fill_fix(info, fb->pitch, fb->depth);
drm_fb_helper_fill_var(info, &fbdev->psb_fb_helper,
sizes->fb_width, sizes->fb_height);
--
1.7.5.3
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